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oops... I had fallen asleep at the keyboard again.
lol... "He lives, now, / in the south of France. His poems arrive / by mail, and we read them and do not understand."
"From a new peony," - Mona Van Duyn ; Sonnet for Minimalists... https://knopfdoubleday.com/2013/04/1...r-minimalists/
"Sonnet for Minimalists". Enjoyed this modern sonnet pairing bloom and decay!
"God gave me a mother, and I'll never know,"."God Gave Me A Mother" by Ron Tranmer
https://www.litscape.com/modernautho..._A_Mother.html
A sweet homage to his mother :)
"Here's to the mice that scare the lions," - Vachel Lindsay; Here's To The Mice!... https://www.best-poems.net/vachel_li..._the_mice.html!
"Here's To The Mice!..." Wonderful! to be distributed in most countries before the election of new governments.
"I cannot go to school today,". "Sick" Shel Silverstein
https://poets.org/poem/sick
re: elections: lol... that and the movie "The Mouse That Roared"
re: "Sick" - lol, I wonder (without googling this time) which came first, this poem or the song Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh by Allan Sherman
"Just connect" - Yuliia Lapushanska; Connection... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/connection-56/
re: I´ll have to look up "The Mouse That Roared" and "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" by Allan Sherman.:)
"Just connect". Had some difficulty in connecting with this poem.
"Keen in his blood ran the old mad desire"."The Knight-Errant" by Virna Sheard
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...t-errant-31227
re: "connecting" - Lol!
Interesting poem with another after the ***... to counter. Enjoyed :)
"Laws, as we read in ancient sages," - James Beattie; Law... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw163.html
"Laws". So true!
"Maru Mori brought me"."Ode to My Socks" by Pablo Neruda
https://poets.org/poem/ode-my-socks
Delightful poem :)
"No man should stand before the moon" - Vachel Lindsay; A Sense Of Humor... https://allpoetry.com/A-Sense-Of-Humor
A Sense Of Humor...Loved this poem!
"O fair mistrust of earth's more solid shows!". "O fair mistrust of earth's more solid shows...by Anne Whitney
https://www.litscape.com/author/Anne...lid_Shows.html
Enjoyed: "And mute appeal from its inhuman ways," :)
"Past the fourth cloverleaf, by dwindling roads" - Virginia Hamilton Adair; Buckroe, After the Season, 1942... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/b...e-season-1942/
Enjoyed the images of Buckroe...
A poet with surname starting with "Q".
"He who writes a poem opens a window." Emergency by Mário Quintana
https://editoraauladeportugues.wordp...ario-quintana/
Enjoyed both poems by this wonderful minimalist :)
"Rhyme, the rack of finest wits," - Ben Johnson; A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a...against-rhyme/
" A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme..." Enjoyed this modern poem from a Renascentist poet!
"Stand in a field long enough, and the sounds"."Becoming a Redwood" by Dana Gioia
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/becoming-a-redwood/
Love this poem :) My assignment for 9/7/2023 from our Tuesdays at Two poetry group is on/about/relating to/etc. trees; gives me another way to ponder.
"Two guitars were left in a room all alone" - Victor Hernández Cruz; Two Guitars... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/two-guitars/